Hi Steve! On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:53:19 +0200, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Luca wrote: >>If you think partman is fine and does not to be fixed, as I wrote at >>least the installation guide should have a note, here is a patch: >> >>--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >>Index: partman.xml >>=================================================================== >>--- partman.xml (revision 68290) >>+++ partman.xml (working copy) >>@@ -408,6 +408,14 @@ >> forget to mount the root filesystem, <command>partman</command> won't >> let you continue until you correct this issue. >> >>+</para> >>+<warning arch="amd64;i386"><para> >>+<!-- BTS: #691046 --> >>+ >>+If you use a disk with a GPT partition table and plan to use GRUB2 as >>+the bootloader, you need to create a <emphasis>BIOS Boot >>+Partition</emphasis> of 1MB to embed GRUB2. >>+ >> </para><para arch="ia64"> >> >> If you forget to select and format an EFI boot partition, >>--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Hey Luca, > > Be aware, GPT does *not* always need a BIOS boot partition - if you're > booting via EFI you don't need that at all.
Is thus the following resume correct?
1) BIOS booting and no EFI at all -> BIOS boot partition
2) BIOS or EFI booting -> BIOS boot partition useless if EFI partition
(which IIRC has to be FAT)
3) EFI booting -> EFI partition
I clearly understand that partman can not be omniscient, which is why I
think that we should document that on the installation-guide.
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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